Melting-furnace.



" un t srirrns rajrn r reten- GRENVITiLE MELLEN, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNGR OF DIME-HALF TO UNITED ALUMINUM INGOT COMPANY, A OQRPURATION 01 NEW YORK.

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\ Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 10, 1912. Serial 1109725361.

To all who n"; it may concern Be it known that I, GRENvILLe MELLEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Meltin -Furnaces, of which the following is a speci cation.

My invention relates to a combined stack and reverberatory furnace, preferably heated by oil or gas, but which can be heated by coal, as in other reverberatory furnaces, the waste heat passing through the stack which constitutes the charging hopper for metal or other material to be melted.

The object of my invention is to provide a furnace that will melt metals or other materials with a higher fuel economy than has been heretofore obtained in melting furnaces, and that is continuous in its action.

In the accompanying illustration, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the furnace; and Fig. 2 is a horizontal section along the line b-b of Fig. 1. 4

A reverberatory furnace 1, lined with a suitable refractory material 2, has an inclined hearth 3 which communicates at its upper end with a stack 1, by way of an arch 5. Its lower end communicates with a sump 6 below an arch 7, the outer wall 8 of the sump leading into a receiving potQ. A suitable opening 10, in a wall of the furnace admi ts flame from an oil-burner, gas burner,

coal furnace, or other source of heat; the

particular means used for heating the furnace being immaterial. The products of combustion, waste heat, etc., pass through the arch 5 and out of the stack 4. Metal or other material to be melted, such as glass,

etc, is charged into the stack 4:, either at the top or through a suitable charging door. The charge, preferably of broken material, scrap, etc., provides many passages between the many pieces, and the heated gases, flame, etc, passing therethrough heats the charge until that at the lower part of the stack melts and is drained oil. through the reverberatory furnace into the sump 6, over the wall 8, and into the receiving pot 9; the charge settling in the stack and'being replenished as fast as it melts away. Scrap metal as purchased in the open market, often contains pieces of foreign metal, 6. 9,, scrap brass frequently contains lumps of iron, etc. 5

such lumps of foreign metal are carried down the inclined hearth and collect in the sump 6, the heavy pieces settling, and the lighter material floating on the top, but intercepted by the vertically movable shield 11 of graphite, fire-brick, etc. The melted metal or other material, after filling the sump, passes over the overflow wall 8, and into the receiving pot 9. A door 12 gives access to a refining chamber 13, through which a rake or other tool may be inserted to remove the foreign material in thesump, and further serves asa means for adding fluxes or other refining chemicals to the metal in the sump or the receiving pot. The refining chamber which consists of the space 13 including that part of the sumpto the left of the shield 11 and the part of the potwithin the shield 14, is suitably closedon its outer side by a shield 1a which serves to prevent loss of heat, and further to keep the fluxes, etc, from floating over the exposed part of the pot. It is to be noted that the lIlBtiLl'lIl the sump is kept hot, since it is exposed to the heat of the reverberatcry chamber, the sliding shield 11 preventing loss of heat, since it dips into the metal in'the,sump.

The melted: metal absorbs considerable heat while passing through the reverberatory chamber 1, but owing to the inclined hearth, it does not remain in the reverbera- Patented Apr. 14, 191a.

may be of a size just large enough to afiord complete combustion of the fuel. The temperature within the reverberatory furnace is, of course, to be maintained above that atwhich the material to be melted melts, so that the molten material will remain melted long enough to be ladled from'the receiving ot. p I claim:

In a melting furnace, the combination of an upwardly projecting stack, a reverberatory furnace atthe bfase of said stack having a sloping bottom and constituting a continualion of said stack and connected thereto testimony WhereofI afiix my signature by an inclined base, a sump at the other end in presenee of t'wo'witnesses. of said reverberatory furnace, a movable shield dipping into said sump, a receiving GRENVILLE MELLEN pot, a refining chamber comprising aportion Witnesses: v

of'said sump and a portion of said pot, and J OHN 'O. BIGELOW,

a removable'cover for said refining chamber. STUART A. YOUNG. 

